CHINA SAYS POLITICS BEHIND US CALL FOR VIRUS ORIGIN PROBE

China on Thursday accused the Biden administration of playing politics and shirking its responsibility in calling for a renewed investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic that was first detected in China in late 2019.

Foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said that President Joe Biden’s order showed the US “does not care about facts and truth, nor is it interested in serious scientific origin tracing.”

Biden told US intelligence officials to redouble their efforts to investigate the origins of Covid-19, including possibility of it coming from a Chinese lab. BEIJING: